Sentence examples for retarded as from inspiring English sources

Antonio Richardson was not only a juvenile, but brain damaged and borderline mentally retarded as well.

The pilots had only retarded the left engine to idle because they thought that without thrust reverser, the right engine did not need to be retarded as well.

Many people see "retarded" as conflicting with the drive to emphasize strengths.

According to the wave theory, light should be retarded as it passes from a rarer to a denser medium; according to the emission theory, it should be accelerated.

"Profoundly Normal," which has its premiere tomorrow night on CBS, is the true love story of Ricardo and Donna Shelby (Kirstie Alley), both of whom were declared "profoundly retarded" as children and have grown up in the same institution.

Ms. Buckley described how she was incorrectly labeled retarded as a child, told she had cervical cancer when she was 27, and was run over by a lifeguard's jeep while lying on the beach.

The demonstration suggested that the combination of YXC and swimming could retard AS development by protecting the vascular endothelium.

Hill's legal team had appealed to the nine justices to intervene on the grounds that the same court prohibited executions for "mentally retarded" prisoners – as called in US jurisprudence – in 2002.

The court agreed to consider the issue of his intellectual disabilities in the light of a 2002 US supreme court ruling that prohibits executions of "mentally retarded" prisoners as a breach of the constitutional safeguard against cruel and unusual punishment.

The works keep time to within 10 seconds a month, but windpressure on the hands can advanc or retard it as much as half a minute.

Tablets with retarding polymer as well as tablets without retarding polymer released fewer cells of P. pentosaceus SB83 at pH 4.2.